Workspace

Next meeting: Wednesday 1:00

Lessons Template (copy/paste)

Resources:

Website
MissionUS at a glance
Classroom Guide
Marzanno's 6 Steps: Vocatulary - tied to Visual Thesaurus, an example

Participants:updated 3/9/11 - 3:00pm

Let's try to get more

• Jean L'Heureux - Hatch
• Danielle McDaniels - Whittier
• Jason Lukehart - Whittier
• Tim Halter - Lincoln
• Elisabeth Smith - Lincoln (note esmith2)
• Tye Johnson - Beye
• Natlie Bauman - Beye

Plan:

Look at activities to see how we can offer choices to provide multiple ways for students to express learning (digital and paper/pencil)
Include classroom activities and optional extensions for the 24/7 classrooms

• SmartTools
• iPod
• Web 2.0 Tools

Initial Work:

• Intro: Background Knowledge Susan

• Prologue: Leaving Home : Susan

• New In Town Rachel

• A Death in Boston - Erich

• March of the Apprentices - Erich

• From Bad to Worse - Susan

• A Meeting with Fate -Erich

• Epilogue - Rachel

Random Thoughts?

• History Standards
• iPod App for Declaration of Independence Translation
• Vocabulary
• Use DocsTeach and National Archives
• RagLinens, Newspapers
• Draw vocab word, post and guess

Organization

Classroom pages

• start with template
• login code
• updated by teacher: assignments and notes

Whole class:

• intro:
• vocabulary
• play game as class
• play game individually
• follow up

Vocabulary Scaffolding Activities
ideas:

• drawing paper/pencil/scanner
• online tools
• iPod/recorder

Lesson 1

• pre-assessment: 4,3,2,1
• provide pictures/primary source docs
• make historical observations
• do lesson
• post-assessment: 4,3,2,1

Lesson 2

Evaluation:

Wiki Vocabulary/ Drawing - Model after Constitution Activity